4&20 blackbirds

Don’t you let that deal go down …

For those of you who are following the vote in the House on health care reform instead of watching March Madness, consider this an open thread.

Since it cost a lot to win
and even more to lose
You and me bound to spend some time
wondring what to choose

And for a treat, check out the Grateful Dead video and full lyrics, Knickerbocker Arena, March 28th, 1993…

This was recorded as President Clinton was gearing up to push for health care in the first months of his presidency. I wonder if there was any connection…???

Since it cost a lot to win
and even more to lose
You and me bound to spend some time
wondring what to choose

Goes to show you don’t ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don’t you let that deal go down

I been gambling here abouts
for ten good solid years
If I told you all that went down
it would burn off both your ears

It goes to show you don’t ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don’t you let that deal go down

Since you poured the wine for me
and tightend up my shoes
I hate to leave you sittin there
composin lonesome blues

It goes to show you don’t ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don’t you let that deal go down
Don’t you let that deal go down, no
Don’t you let your deal go down

Share this:

Like this:

Related

pass the bill already. it is 99% useless but at least then we can concentrate on other things like stopping two costly wars that are accomplishing nothing.

now that there is no public option passed by the feds, we can also concentrate on schweitzer passing public option health insurance in montana and making our state the delaware of health care for every fortune 500 company in the world.

the taxes and jobs created would be immense. it would dwarf anything montana has ever mined in its history in terms of economic impact. and without the pollution for arsenic tainted heap/leech gold and silver, the coal-fields and an open-pit copper mine.

passing a good inexpensive public option for businesses to offer for their employees would dwarf all the money made for all the minerals this state has ever exported. and the jobs would be ours.

The bill does allow states to institute its own programs – and Montana will be able to, if it chooses, to institute a public option to complete with the two health insurance companies that hold over 85% of the state’s health coverage.

One would hope that legislators on both sides of the aisle see how advantageous a public option health insurance would be to economic development in the state.

Everyone knows that small business is the bulk of America’s economy. Health care insurance is a huge impediment.

That is not an exaggeration.

Just – JUST – in the last few hours I stopped in at a new mapping and trails and guide books store – pretty cool place, actually – and the owner was talking to someone, telling them how he was looking for a part-time job with the state or the feds just to get healthcare.

So he either has none now or it is such a huge burden on his start-up business that he is considering employment with someone else, taking himself away from his own.

That’s not business-friendly.

Rural states are at a real disadvantage with the lack of competition. Montana can take the funding coming out of this bill and create a larger pool of insureds that eases up our current burden in Medicaid.

The bottles stand as empty
as they were filled before
Time there was and plenty
but from that cup no more
Though I could not caution all I yet may warn a few:
Don’t lend your hand to raise no flag
atop no ship of fools